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Pale Fire by Nabakov. Or Lolita for that matter. *NM* Panorphaeon Send a noteboard - 21/06/2010 08:22:56 PM

I finished Magician recently, and I'm looking for something else to read. Instead of raiding the book store and looking for something, I thought I'd ask which books you consider to be spectacular.

I'm not looking for a book that has any particular outstanding single characteristic such as a contrived plot, deep philosophy or detailed world-building. I'm looking for a book that destroyed your life for the time that you read it - because you couldn't put it down, and afterwards you put it down and went 'wow'.

Thanks!
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Amazing books you think people must read Sidious - 20/06/2010 08:35:22 PM 1431 Views
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Rebekah - 20/06/2010 08:39:11 PM 819 Views
Replay by Ken Grimwood. *NM* Dreaded Anomaly - 20/06/2010 09:05:40 PM 419 Views
A few Camilla - 20/06/2010 10:06:38 PM 832 Views
Ehrm. Do you mean fantasy? jh - 20/06/2010 10:24:34 PM 1233 Views
If you insist... Larry - 20/06/2010 11:05:30 PM 890 Views
Actually, I did better on that list than I was expecting beforehand. Legolas - 20/06/2010 11:24:17 PM 794 Views
The main ones coming to mind are 1984, Possession and The Discovery of Heaven. Legolas - 20/06/2010 11:27:48 PM 860 Views
sadly I have not been wowed by a book in a while random thoughts - 21/06/2010 12:07:33 AM 920 Views
Julian Comstock was good? Aeryn - 22/06/2010 05:13:37 PM 756 Views
I love the style it was written in random thoughts - 22/06/2010 06:13:48 PM 815 Views
Catch 22 nossy - 21/06/2010 02:03:18 AM 808 Views
It's that good? I have it on my shelf here but haven't read it. *NM* Tom - 21/06/2010 05:13:55 PM 351 Views
Let's just say it makes an impact. nossy - 21/06/2010 06:22:10 PM 784 Views
It honestly had very little impact on me one way or another. Cockatiel of Doom - 22/06/2010 12:13:24 AM 809 Views
I really don't think it's that you're stupid. nossy - 22/06/2010 02:23:50 AM 820 Views
I enjoyed it. The absurdism--not all that unlike Vonnegut in many instances--made for a lot of fun. Vodalus - 22/06/2010 02:50:49 AM 836 Views
<3 Vonnegut nossy - 22/06/2010 03:24:23 AM 1067 Views
Same here snoopcester - 22/06/2010 12:25:29 PM 827 Views
I'd say... j-whitt987 - 21/06/2010 03:11:24 AM 801 Views
Baxter's book The Raft was an interesting book random thoughts - 21/06/2010 02:35:32 PM 773 Views
I haven't read anything else of his. Just what he did with Clarke on that series. j-whitt987 - 22/06/2010 12:08:15 AM 795 Views
Some suggestions Maria - 21/06/2010 03:40:06 PM 817 Views
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. It's the July Book Club selection, too. *NM* Tom - 21/06/2010 05:13:25 PM 382 Views
didn't the Russian Book Club just cover that book? *NM* random thoughts - 21/06/2010 05:17:59 PM 374 Views
Nope... The RAFO book club is joining the Russian book club to discuss it in July. Jacob - 21/06/2010 05:20:36 PM 767 Views
Thanks for all the kind suggestions! *NM* Sidious - 21/06/2010 05:56:37 PM 480 Views
Pale Fire by Nabakov. Or Lolita for that matter. *NM* Panorphaeon - 21/06/2010 08:22:56 PM 385 Views
Pale Fire was excellent. Especially for people who enjoy when Frost is mocked. Tom - 22/06/2010 12:49:38 AM 808 Views
It's truly an amazing work. I should revisit it. Panorphaeon - 26/06/2010 05:57:20 AM 773 Views
i beg you, do not read silverthorn or darkness at the whatever Foxhead - 29/06/2010 12:12:33 AM 787 Views
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